The Classic Pike Street Market Fish Toss

Clam chowder at Ivar's a Seattle institution since 1938

A good place to people watch

We call this guy "The Balloon Man" for obvious reasons. The market is loaded with artists, musicians, etc. My favorite is a group of African American guys who sing a kind of Gospel, harmony doo-wop. They are usually here on Saturdays.

Nice view and good restaurants

We watched the boat traffic from the upstairs restaurant as we nibbled on deep fried shrimp and cold beer.

We been coming here for most of our 36 years together.

Just a great place to shop

Walking the Pike Street Market

We put our things in the room then across the street to visit the Pike Street Market and have lunch.

Updating the blogsite

We are now only a month away from heading south so I am getting the blogsite up and running again. I was posting pictures to Facebook but it was to restrictive so from now on I will post short notes on Facebook along with the entrance to this blogsite. We still want to use this as our journal to remind us where we went and what we did. We will post pictures here in quantity and if anyone is interested they are welcome to our site.

Our 36th Wedding Anniversary was Tuesday, September 29th and we decided to make it a four day celebration to include the weekend. We took the convertible to Seattle on a beautiful sunny day and checked into a nice room on the third floor of the Inn At The Market just across a narrow street from the Pike Street Market. It was a corner room with a water view, with the Public Market sign in prominent view.